[Dragokas]

Hi,

suggest me, please, a normal color library (or code) and list of prefixes for L4D.

I tried several:

stamm-colors.inc, morecolors.inc, multicolors.inc, colorvariables.inc, colorsLib.inc

but nothing works for me, or I just fucked up.

I need red and blue colors. Some of the above libs give blue, but not red (even if an infected player exists).

PS. BTW, does anybody found a way how to get "red" without even the requirement to have at least 1 player in the infected team?

[cravenge]

I don't think it's possible to color a text red without a player or bot in the Infected team.

[Marttt]

I made this once, but as cravenge said I was unable to make the colours work without a client in the team, maybe creating a fake client and kicking next after chat event would make it work, don't know.

But if the creation failed, I think the text output in "White"

I'm not sure but PrintToChat may use SayText and to get team colors we have to use SayText2 (has one thread here)

Here is some info I used to add to my translation file, most of them are based on your color tutorial for translation files

	Using color tags:
		• {default} // Default (use instead of \x01)
		• {lightyellow} // Light Yellow (use instead of \x01) = Default
		• {orange} // Orange(use instead of \x04)
		• {olive} // Olive (use instead of \x05)
		• {lightgreen} // Light Green (use instead of \x03)
		***Extended color tags***:
		• {team} // Team color chat (use instead of \x03). Color based on the current client team.
		• {blue} // Blue (use instead of \x03). Requires at least one client on the Survivor team.
		• {red} // Red (use instead of \x03). Requires at least one client on the Infected team.
		• {white} // White (use instead of \x03)

Then to output in Red/Blue/White color I have to use this stock

PHP Code:

void SayText2(int client, int author, const char[] format, any ...)
{
    char sMessage[MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH];
    VFormat(sMessage, sizeof(sMessage), format, 4);
    
    Handle hBuffer = StartMessageOne("SayText2", client);
    BfWriteByte(hBuffer, author);
    BfWriteByte(hBuffer, true);
    BfWriteString(hBuffer, sMessage);
    EndMessage();
} 


Would be nice to have some way, as you asked, to output in e.g. Red without a client.

[Dragokas]

Marttt, thank you. Are you mean a real (not fake) infected player?

With your snippet, red color is white for me. here it is:

PHP Code:

#pragma semicolon 1
#pragma newdecls required

#include <sourcemod>
//#include <colors>

int g_Infected;

const int MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH = 250;

public void OnPluginStart()
{
    RegConsoleCmd("sm_t", Command_Colors);
    
    HookEvent("player_team", Event_PlayerTeam, EventHookMode_Post);
}

public Action Event_PlayerTeam(Event event, char[] name, bool dontBroadcast)
{
    if( !event.GetBool("disconnect") )
    {
        if( event.GetInt("team") == 3 )
        {
            g_Infected = GetClientOfUserId(event.GetInt("userid"));
            
            PrintToChatAll("new inf: %i", g_Infected);
        }
    }
}

public void OnClientDisconnect(int client)
{
    PrintToChatAll("disc: %i", client);

    if( g_Infected == client ) // check, isn't it too late
    {
        g_Infected = 0;
    }
}

public Action Command_Colors(int client, int args)
{
    if( g_Infected )
    {
        SayText(client, g_Infected, "\x03RED");
        SayText(client, g_Infected, "\x01\x03RED");
    }
    
    return Plugin_Handled;
}

void SayText(int client, int author, const char[] format, any ...)
{
    char sMessage[MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH];
    VFormat(sMessage, sizeof(sMessage), format, 4);
    
    Handle hBuffer = StartMessageOne("SayText2", client);
    BfWriteByte(hBuffer, author);
    BfWriteByte(hBuffer, true);
    BfWriteString(hBuffer, sMessage);
    EndMessage();
} 


I'm spawning a boomer, and execute "sm_t", text is white.
Am I doing something wrong? PS. Tested in L4D1.

Also, it makes no sense for me color tags you described. Can you please clarify:

{lightgreen} // Light Green (use instead of \x03) {team} // Team color chat (use instead of \x03). Color based on the current client team. {blue} // Blue (use instead of \x03). Requires at least one client on the Survivor team. {white} // White (use instead of \x03)

All uses code \x03, so what's the difference?
Also, {white} (or actually, grey) is uses \x01, AFAIK. Is there a real white?

Amazingly, that nobody still didn't create a color lib specially for L4D.

[Marttt]

Is an old file when I started with SM, but from what I remember \x03 is necessary to output red/blue/white colors.

Here is the snippet that I used to use, I did copy paste so may be missing some things

PHP Code:

#define TEAM_SURVIVOR                2
#define TEAM_INFECTED                3

case team: SayText2(client, client, "\x01%s", sMessage);
case blue:  SayText2(client, FindRandomPlayerByTeam(TEAM_SURVIVOR), "\x01%s", sMessage);
case red:   SayText2(client, FindRandomPlayerByTeam(TEAM_INFECTED), "\x01%s", sMessage);
case white: SayText2(client, -1, "\x01%s", sMessage);

void SayText2(int client, int author, const char[] format, any ...)
{
    char sMessage[MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH];
    VFormat(sMessage, sizeof(sMessage), format, 4);

    Handle hBuffer = StartMessageOne("SayText2", client);
    BfWriteByte(hBuffer, author);
    BfWriteByte(hBuffer, true);
    BfWriteString(hBuffer, sMessage);
    EndMessage();
}

int FindRandomPlayerByTeam(int color_team)
{
    if (!1 <= color_team <= 4)
        return 0;

    for (int client = 1; client <= MaxClients; client++)
    {
        if (IsClientInGame(client) && GetClientTeam(client) == color_team)
            return client;
    }

    return 0;
} 


About creating a bot (and swapping team) I think it may have to wait for some frames before sending the message.
I didn't created a bot, I use the FindRandomPlayerByTeam function, but I noticed that when there is no "infected" player, for example, it fails and output white.

The white color can be achieved by the spec player (or by -1)

[Dragokas]

Thanks a lot. Better, but still, not enough.

Originally Posted by Marttt case team: SayText2(client, client, "\x01%s", sMessage); case blue: SayText2(client, FindRandomPlayerByTeam(TEAM_SURVIVOR), "\x01%s", sMessage); case red: SayText2(client, FindRandomPlayerByTeam(TEAM_INFECTED), "\x01%s", sMessage); case white: SayText2(client, -1, "\x01%s", sMessage);

Did you mean \x03 ?

With your snippet:

PHP Code:

const int MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH = 255;

public void OnPluginStart()
{
    RegConsoleCmd("sm_tt", Command_Colors);
}

public Action Command_Colors(int client, int args)
{
    char[] sMessage = "Hello!";
        
    SayText2(client, client, "\x03%s", sMessage);
    SayText2(client, FindRandomPlayerByTeam(TEAM_SURVIVOR), "\x03%s", sMessage);
    SayText2(client, FindRandomPlayerByTeam(TEAM_INFECTED), "\x03%s", sMessage);
    SayText2(client, -1, "\x03%s", sMessage);

    return Plugin_Handled;
} 


in L4D2:

blue blue red white

yeah, finally RED, but:

in L4D1:

blue blue grey white

Both games - coop, fake tank bot is in team.

I remember, last year I used some colors.inc with PrintToChatAll("{red}something"); and that's worked,
but I lost that inc and can't reproduce.

[Dragokas]

When I print something in chat like "abrakadabra" I hear "tick" sound.
When I execute StartMessageOne("SayText2"... I hear the same sound.
Is there a way to prevent it?

I tried add flags USERMSG_RELIABLE|USERMSG_BLOCKHOOKS. That seems not helped.

[alasfourom]

Based on what Marttt said, I made it to work, but I had to create a fake bot then kick it



Is there an existing script now that can do the job?? I wonder

if some work around already existed please share, I would really appreciate it, thanks